DELAWARE, Ohio — A Columbus man with a
urine fetish will stay on house arrest and not get the jail time he asked for after repeatedly
harassing his probation officer on the phone this month.

Alan Patton, 59, of the Northwest Side, and his 87-year-old mother left several ranting messages
for his probation officer, Sheryl Titus, and for Michael Keller, chief of Delaware Municipal Court
probation, on Aug. 14 and Aug. 15. Patton also tested positive for methamphetamines.

He was on probation for a criminal mischief conviction in February after he was found loitering
in a Lewis Center Burger King bathroom and clogging the toilets. He was acquitted on a charge of
collecting bodily substances, a crime that was crafted with him in mind after he was found
attempting to collect urine in 2009.

He was sentenced in February to 30 days in jail and five years of house arrest and GPS
monitoring. He is forbidden from using public restrooms.

In Delaware Municipal Court yesterday, Patton’s attorney, Christopher Soon, asked that his
client, who has been held since being arrested Aug. 15, serve the remaining 19 days in jail on the
violation and be relieved of his probation restrictions.

Assistant City Prosecutor Joseph E. Schmansky said Patton would rather serve the jail term so he
can be free to offend again.

“He wants to go out and do what got him into trouble,” he said.

Patton, who said he was frustrated and ashamed of what he said in the phone messages, insisted
he had no intention of pursuing his fetish.

Judge David P. Sunderman ordered Patton released and put back on GPS monitoring. He also ordered
Patton to seek some sort of mental-health counseling.

In the messages, Patton calls his probation “five years of torture” and rants against religion,
America and the justice system. Several of the messages include vulgarities, Titus said.

“I intend to destroy the United States from within,” he said in one message from 2 a.m. on Aug.
15.

Patton’s criminal record dates to 1978, with charges that include voyeurism, public indecency,
criminal mischief and rape.

In 1993, he was labeled a sex offender and served nearly five years in prison after being
convicted for fondling boys while trying to collect urine at the Magic Mountain Fun Center on the
Far East Side.

After his 2009 conviction for criminal mischief when he was caught collecting urine at
SportsOhio in Dublin, state legislators made it a first-degree misdemeanor to collect any bodily
substances without consent and for nonmedical purposes.